Note: All of this functionality, except setting and viewing licenses, is now available in Spotfire Server.
The Groups and Licenses tab of the Administration Manager allows you to create and delete groups, manage the members of a group, and set which licenses a group has access to.
Basic facts:
A Spotfire user is a user whose username is registered on the Spotfire Server. The list of users can either be directly linked to an existing Windows user directory, or a stand alone list only residing in the Spotfire Server database.
A group is a collection of users, and can also contain other groups as members.
A user can be a member of one or many groups.
A group can be a member of another group, but no circular memberships are possible.
All users are members of the Everyone group. The Everyone group cannot be deleted and will always contain all users.
Licenses are only set on group level, never for individual users. The active licenses for a user are determined by the groups the user is a member of.
A deployment area can be set for each group in the Spotfire Administration Console. The deployment areas are used, for example, to manage multiple client versions with one server. When a deployment area is specified for a group, all members of that group can access the packages in the specified area. If no deployment area is set for a group, the group members get the default deployment area. The default deployment area is overridden when a deployment area is specified for a group.
The Available Groups List
To edit the properties or licenses set for a group, you first select the group from the Available groups list. You can choose to display all the groups on the server in two modes: as a hierarchical list showing which groups are subgroups of which, and as a flat alphabetical list.
See also:
Description of Groups and Licenses